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Look, I'm going to end this for tonight. I would be interested in any further correspondence later, and I will respond.

But the thing that got to me was the irrational and hysterical posting on this thread that makes us look like the mirror image of Move On or DU.

(I just wrote ((a whole bunch of crap)) a brilliant essay on the history of conservatism and why we will win).

And I erased it.

Keep this in mind...Obama is vulnerable on so many fronts, once the stones start rolling, they won't be stopped.

But the thing that got to me was the irrational and hysterical posting on this thread that makes us look like the mirror image of Move On or DU.

You are engaged in a very common logical fallacy, one that political radicals on the Left love to use. You assume that, because accusations of Bush being Hitler were irrational and a sign of delusional thinking, that all accusations against all presidents henceforth will be irrational. However, in reality we could have 100 presidents in a row who were all wrongly accused of having fascist intentions, but that has no bearing on whether the 101st president has fascist intentions or not.

In other words, just because the Left's accusations against Bush were unfounded, doesn't automatically mean that all accusations against Obama will be unfounded. We will have to evaluate Obama on his own merits. The analogy that I like to use is this: you walk into a room where you see your two small children and a broken lamp. You ask the first child who broke the lamp and he points to the second and says "He did." You ask the second child and he points to the first and says "He did." Using your logic, because both children said the same thing, they must both be lying, whereas in reality, one is lying and one is telling the truth.

Also, you should bear in mind that it is a very common but dirty political tactic to accuse your opponent of the very thing you are guilty of. That way, any accusations toward yourself can be dismissed as merely tit-for-tat politicking. That is the kind of tactic that got us Hillary Clinton claiming a vast right wing conspiracy and attack machine, when any person with eyes can see that the majority of the attack media belongs to the Left. In fact, if you want to know what a leftist is guilty of, you only have to listen to his accusations against others.

I do not, in the least, believe that the intense distrust of Obama is unfounded. Some of it may be incorrect or exaggerated, but Obama has done everything possible to convince us that he is, indeed, an inept Marxist who has serious things to hide. Ignoring that merely because we fear looking irrational would be the worst kind of cowardice.